A cold and a big weekend

Poor little William has his first cold :-( It's so sad when he's trying to cough. He slept in the swing last night and did OK. Yesterday ha had it in his mind that he was not going to go to daycare. The sitter called Chad about 10:30 and said he was hysterical. Chad picked him up and he was fine the rest of the day. He just wanted an early weekend :-) I completely understand his point of view. But doesn't he still look adorable??? Does this look like the face of someone hysterical???

We have our first big race tomorrow. I haven't blogged about it because I wasn't sure we'd actually do it, but here I am stating it- we will run the Brentwood Boogie 5K tomorrow. I'll have the fastest 13 minute mile of anyone else out there! I'm so slow these days, but hopefully all the carbo loading and tapering I've been doing will help my race efforts. By tapering, I really mean we haven't been running at all this week :-) I train by carbo loading. We'll see if my training method works tomorrow. If nothing else, he will be the cutest 2 mo old in the race :-)





Here are just a few pics from the last week of our little pal...
Here he's showing you the first time he's worn my favorite pjs I bought when I was pregnant- I also think it will be his last- they're sooo tight, and his big skis (feet) are curled at the toes...so sad!
I'm trying to find him a bunting for wearing while we run this winter so we tried a feww on at the local outfitters- is this cute or what????

Pumpkin Patch

Chad's not home a lot on the weekends, so when he's here I/we like to have little family outings. Today we decided to find a pumpkin patch- perfect to try out he camera we bought last night...which we've since returned, but that's another story....

We found Gentry Farm which happened to be close to the house, so I dressed William up in his new Halloween outfit (everyone seemed to vote for black and white, I wanted khaki, so he has 2 Halloween around town outfits...) He looked ADORABLE and I'm not just saying that because I'm the mom. He even had on his little Johnny socks that look like black converse hightops. He sat in the bouncy for just a few minutes and fell asleep and woke up to an explosion from the diaper. I'm convinced he didn't want to wear a jon-jon with a ghost on it so he thought he'd mess on it and we'd put him in a "big" boy outfit. Tricky Mommy had TWO outfits ready to go, so he wore the khaki and pumpkin outfit to the farm. I think next year we'll have better luck at the pumpkin patch pics....

We are trying out a lot with the new camera so here are just a few pictures we've taken just hanging out today. I love being home on the weekends just watching him look at books with Chad in the morning and hearing him/ seeing him giggle and smile all day. It makes me sad to have to go to work and see all that I miss while I'm taking roll and doing teacher things- so sad! We are so lucky to have such a sweetie little baby!!!!

Oh and by the way I STILL can't figure out how to arrange pictures on the blog- how do you drag them around Sunday to make your blog look so good???? I want to put a few pictures on one row... FYI, blogger will not load any more pictures tonight, so I will try loading the others later this week :-)

OK, so our camera is broken :-( so sad! It just won't turn on. Before you suggest I charge the battery...I already tried that! We'll look for a new one this weekend and post some new pics soon- promise! But William does have a few new "tricks" I thought you'd like to know about. He is really into flipping his head side to side like "what's this, what's that" over and over. He also loves for you to be on your back and to hold him up and raise and lower him like he's a super baby. He says "ooooh" and kicks his legs the whole time- so cute! He can also produce more drool by the minute than anyone we know- he is a drool machine :-)

Last, but not least he has learned to scoot- well he did it one time and it was because his diaper leaked and he was soaked , but before he cried for us to come get him last night he scooted to the top of his crib..and turned sideways. Obviously the smartest baby in the world!

I really wish I had some new pictures for you because he smiles so much these days! Maybe by the end of the weekend. Here's an old picture just so you can get your baby William fix :-)

2mo check up

Today William weighed 14lb 4 oz and was 23.75 in- so he grew 1.75 in and has gained almost 6lbs since he was born! Gooo baby William! Everything else was fine. he did get his first round of vaccines and when I heard him cry after the first one I started to cry- it was soo sad! I couldn't stand it and he had 2 more shots to go. He yelped, I cried and then it was over. He was so brave. He has the cutest band-aids on today- his first ones. I will post a pic later. It's late for me and I'm tired. We have parent conferences again tomorrow so I'm off to bed. I just wanted everyone to know how big he's getting :-)

Happy Birthday to you!!!!

The birthday boy

Today is the big 2 month birthday! I can't believe I'm typing this while I'm at work (kids are doing a review sheet :-) ) and Chad's taking the baby to the sitter- just two short months ago we were at the hospital. He has changed soo much! I feel like he's getting a little personality and we know what he likes and what he doesn't. I thought this morning as I was getting his bottles ready how cute they were with only one ounce and now he has 5 ounces! He's changing so much, so fast. I want time to slow down. He is the happiest baby and Chad and I can't believe what we did without him. Who would've thought how content we'd be to just stay at home and say "oooo" just to have him repeat it back to you, but I wouldn't trade those moments for anything. It's hard to believe you can love something so tiny so much. Happy 2 month birthday to our favorite, our sweet, our wonderful little William!!!!

Brand new baby
Chad looks like he's holding him so carefully here..you should see him now- what a pro!
He wore this last night and his legs hang out of the bottom. He sits up to the giraffe in the swing- he was so little!!!! Look at his skinny face!
Here's the chunky baby we love! We go to the doctor tomorrow- I'll post with his new stats...I bet he's grown 2 inches!

Happy Birthday Sweet Baby!!!!!!

Happy Friday

What a happy baby we've got!!! Lately William has been such a chatterbox it's so cute, I love it! As he was chattering tonight Chad took a few pictures that were just too cute not to share....

My sister is coming today with her two boys Eli and Cope. I know William will love having some little friends to chatter with all weekend! I'll try to get a few shots for you...

Happy Friday to you from our happy baby.... Have a great weekend!

Week 8- Where does time go???

I won't bore you with the details of the last few weeks, but basically I'm back at work full time (it's OK), Chad's busy, busy doing contractor things, and William is growing like a weed. We have a two month appointment next Wednesday- I bet he's grown two inches! Here are just a bunch of pictures of him with short descriptions....

Oh I forgot his new thing is to try and repeat what Chad says. Chad will say "A- goo" and William will say it back...soooo fun

He loves to blow mouth bubbles- we call him rabid baby.....

Before we leave the house if he's in the carseat for too long he'll fuss. Chad's response- act like the carseat is the Flying Dutchman ride at a fair.... it works I can't complain!

happy baby

If it's nice out I'll spread a blanket in the yard and set up camp for a "picnic." he LOVES it ..I do too until the mosquitoes find us!

Seriously- you can't tell me he's not huge compared to just a few weeks ago....

Here we are playing "Steamroller" (have I blogged about steamroller?)with him. He just giggles and giggles. This is when he firrst started repeating stuff back to Chad :-)

Dad's view of life with William.... he feeds him all the time :-)

This one's dark, but funny- Chad was trying to carry him on his shoulders....